ABSTRACT
Here, for example, we have a dossier where one element of my business association’s board have a hard, fixed position in the German style – they won’t budge! “It’s like that because what we have works very well!” The first thing, my first job – and I’ve spent six months making this happen – is to make them understand that if we go on like that the problem is everyone else in the coalition will be left out and it won’t work. … When we’re around the table the one that shouts loudest isn’t always right, you have to rebalance. … You have internal lobbying.
